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20 Jan 2013, 11:24 (Ref:3191713) | #26 | |
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Triple Eight Australia have been separate from their UK counterparts for a number of years now.
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This is the challenge of when a sport becomes a business. When you have to mix the rewards for performance and excellence versus the reality of maintaining the health of the competition and the participants financially.
You see in English football how Man U, Liverpool and Arsenal were the "Big Three" and crushed all other clubs with earning and spending power for years. It took a couple of Oil multi-billionaires spending cash with abandon to upset that formula with City and Chelsea. It is now just a case of whether Man U, Man C or Chelsea will win each year. Same result, different teams. Football codes in Australia have the salary cap to promote a level playing field (like the pun). Racing has never really had this except in one make arrive and drive series. So the V8's now find themselves battling a conflict between history and need. No winning team likes to handicap themselves but a 9 car series with 888, FPR and HRT is in no-ones interest. The challenge is that what is desired and the best balance is an equality of opportunity not equality of outcome. The problem is that is very hard to deliver in a open competitive environment, and equality of outcome is easy. The COTF was seen as a way to reduce costs and give teams a new development curve and potentially more access to funds. The problem lies in that it cost so much both in terms of new development, build but also the lowering of prices teams received for their old gear. (I have heard of top 10 championship cars scraping just over the 100k mark as rollers) On top of this, the loss of income from franchise payments from the latest round of deals means that even if these cars do cost less to run, it is offset by this cut. Big budgets always win out, they can hire the best people and buy the best bits. 888 landed the best sponsorship deal and then got manufacturers funding. I hope we may get some interesting result as drivers and teams come to terms with the new gear, sooner or later the same world order will be established. Any dominant body decreases the excitement of a sport or competition, it is a natural thing if likelihood of an outcome increases the interest in that outcome decreases. 888 have been amazing but if the others cannot find a way to raise themselves to there level, there may yet be a need to pull them back to everyone elses level for the sake of the sport |
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Imagine how crap a tv deal they'd get if the results were swayed by making the best guys stop and wait for everyone. If I had a business, I'd want it as fair as possible. I bet they'll lose a lot more 'business' by slowing down the fast guys (plus they'll probably leave, followed by the next team that takes their place, and so on a million times until the series dries up to nothing) Last edited by STEALTHY; 20 Jan 2013 at 22:35. |
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I watch BTCC because the winners get ballast for the next race. The top teams still come out on top at the end of the year, but you're never sure which races they are going to be able to win. I never missed a round of BTCC, but I sure skipped many V8 Supercar rounds.
It does not make business sense to lose viewer interest in the sport by winning every race of every event. Potential customers are not tuning in as regularly to view the sponsors on the car. And I can guarantee that of all my friends and workmates, very few were bothering to watch the races at the end of the year last year because they 'already know who is going to win'. There has to be a balance to keep the casual viewers watching. Sure, you hardcore Holden fans want to watch 888 win every race forever, but I can assure you that all casual viewers don't feel the same way. |
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The thing is, anything that is implemented to nobble a successful team/car/driver would always be seen as a gimmick. Just like the reverse grid/top 10/top 6 races we had back in the early 2000s. It was great watching the guys at the front tripping over eachother trying to make a break from the field, and likewises for those carving their way through the pack in much faster cars. But at the end of the day, it wasn't pure racing.
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I agree. But we've just gone through saying that racing is a business now. Even Formula1 has introduced gimmicks to boost viewer figures. Why? To get more people watching, to increase appeal to sponsors.
I can understand that diehard fans want pure racing with no gimmicks. But it doesn't make business sense, and the diehard fans are not willing to pay for it themselves either. They just like to talk about it and hope someone else does. People have so many entertainment options these days that categories have to compete for your attention. If I know that Schumacher and Ferrari stood a 98% chance of winning the race, I wasn't as dedicated to tuning in and watching it as when the title was being fought by 3 different drivers from 3 different teams. |
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Did i hear salary cap ?
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Supercars is a dud category that has offered very little to anyone but holden and it's supporters..........it will be interesting to see how KR/Nissan and Erebus/AMG are treated in this new era..........will they simply be allowed to wither and die because of the old rigid and antiquated parity system?
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If we're doing that, we might aswell change to drawing the winners name out if a hat, or make it that you can only win one race per year, you know, to keep it interesting for viewers |
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I have said that Formula1 uses gimmicks (DRS etc). BTCC uses gimmicks (success ballast). Both are very popular with casual mainstream viewers (read: potential customers of potential sponsors) at the moment. One driver winning every race in the V8 Supercars is not popular at the moment. Except with you of course. |
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There's just a lot of holden supporters.....they had better look after Nissan and Erebus because support from the blue side seems to be dropping off, both from the company and the supporters.
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As for the newbies, well Nissan have always been big in Oz motorsport. Cant see the Mercs going anywhere. And from What ive heard Chrysler are waiting in the wings to give themselves more time to prepare for GRM in 2014. I think the category can survive Fords lack of interest. |
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I don't know where you come up with the idea that I think they are exactly the same. You're totally missing the point about gimmicks (no matter how different) being used to make the racing more interesting (in different ways) to attract a greater audience. I am finished with it, however. No hard feelings, enjoy your racing.
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